• Tiral@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    You mean borderline slave labor? Because that’s pretty much what Chinese manufacturing is.

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          6 days ago

          Yeah, you’re gonna have to take that up $4 trillion tech company, Apple. I am physically disabled, so I use the voice to text and you get what it gives you.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah, I know I’m not gonna go with that 1990s bullshit anymore. The middle class is stronger than the American middle class so I hope you’re not an American… because that would mean you occupy the same corporate dictatorship that I do. Suppressing free speech everywhere. Pushing half the country into poverty while china pulls theirs out? Yeah bro must really suck to live in China right now.

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      10 days ago

      Maybe if you are comparing it to the US cost of living? The average manufacturing job for tech companies in China is around 12k usd a year, while a middle class yearly income starts around 15k a year. So they are in the upper end of the working class.

      The basic cost of living is just extremely cheap compared to western countries. Although the wages are only 20-25% when compared to US manufacturing, the cost of basic necessities like housing and food are about 3x cheaper.

      It really matters what region you are talking about, tier 1 cities are quite a bit more expensive than tier 2 and 3, but still affordable compared to western nations.

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        10 days ago

        the cost of basic necessities like housing and food are about 3x cheaper.

        Depends. Newly built apartments will set you back $200k after conversion there, some years ago it could easily reach $500k.

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          10 days ago

          In a tier 1 city, I wouldn’t doubt that. That’s the equivalent of buying a new apartment in NYC or San Francisco.

          However, unlike the US there are an over abundance of older living spaces that are much much affordable.

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      10 days ago

      my company is trying to adopt the 996. It’s no longer isolated to china…

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      9 days ago

      Chinese manufacturing did a major turn around in the last couple of decades though can still be awful.

      Chinese fishing on the other hand is still almost 100% powered by slaves. Just look up the conditions these people are in while absolutely decimating our oceans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tuS1LLOcsI